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"The Gull Island Institute is a vision for higher education, offering immersive liberal arts programs in remote coastal ecosystems in the Cape and Islands Region of Massachusetts. Our mission is to prepare a new generation for democratic citizenship and care of the earth through place-based learning rooted in rigorous academics, physical labor, and student self-governance.​"

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A coalition of American civil society groups on Friday called for a federal investigation into reports that artificial intelligence giants are mass-purchasing physical books, scanning them to train their AI models, and destroying them without regard for historical artifacts or the public good.
In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the coalition notes that “at least one top AI company, Anthropic, is known to have acquired millions of print books in bulk, scanned them into digital form, and discarded the physical originals.” The letter notes that “this process leaves only the digitized text in the company’s proprietary database for use in training its large language models behind products such as Claude.”
The coalition, led by the Demand Progress Education Fund, pointed to an internal Anthropic memo that was made public as part of a copyright lawsuit against the company. The memo is headlined “Project Panama,” which is described as “our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”
“We use a ‘soft codename’ for it because we don’t want it to be known that we are working on this,” the memo states. “This document is visible to all Anthropic employees, but you should avoid talking about it in public areas, and the fact that we are working on this should not be shared with anyone outside Anthropic.”
At one point, Anthropic reportedly considered approaching US libraries such as the New York Public Library for its massive book-consumption campaign. One court document describes how an Anthropic vendor’s “hydraulic powered cutting machine” would “neatly cut” books for scanning. The scanning company would then “schedule with the recycling company to pick up the completed books,” according to the filing.
Amazon is also reportedly engaged in a large book-buying operation, under which employees “cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly.”
The new letter to the FTC observes that “proxies and intermediaries now function as sourcing partners for AI companies, offering the buyers anonymity and brokering bulk book orders—including rare, out-of-print titles with few surviving copies.” 404 Media reported last month that ISBNdb, which markets itself as “the world’s largest book database,” is offering “high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies.”
“Books published before the rise of generative AI (such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini) command a premium because they are free of the AI-sourced text common in today’s writing,” the new letter adds.
The coalition argues that AI giants’ mass book buying and subsequent destruction—dubbed the “hoard and destroy” practice—is part of an effort to “build and entrench their market dominance” by “corner[ing] the essential inputs of AI development.”
We ask the FTC to use its investigative authorities, including potentially under Section 6(b) of the FTC Act, to determine whether and to what extent this practice forecloses competing AI developers and the public from a scarce, non-reproducible input and whether it constitutes an unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act,” the groups write.
“Through their practice of permanently destroying books en masse and thus removing those non-renewable resources from broader access, AI companies are engineering a future where only the wealthiest incumbents can build high-quality AI models and operate as the sole holders of humanity’s written works—after having destroyed the originals to get there.”
Kate Oh, special adviser to the Demand Progress Education Fund, said in a statement Friday that “the secretive and reckless way that major AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon are acting shows that there is real smoke here that the FTC needs to investigate.”
“There is credible reporting that the AI industry is acquiring books on vast commercial scales to scan and destroy, all to keep that scanned text in a private database walled off from the world and subject to corporate censorship and manipulation,” Oh added.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are leaving California after deals with Netflix and Spotify failed, experts say. Is their brand dead?

“They were a success in Hollywood on one level,” said Stephen Galloway, who runs the film school at Chapman University in California. “They brilliantly scammed some of the powers that be, and I never ceased to be amazed that very shrewd, extremely astute, hard-bitten, cynical executives are still blinded by celebrity. ...
From a financial perspective the Sussexes may view their time with Netflix as a success, said David Offenberg, an associate professor of finance who specialises in entertainment at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. “They got paid,” he said. “That’s what a whole lot of people who are trying to make it in Hollywood are ultimately trying to accomplish.”
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Have you ever noticed a song that seems to follow you through your record collection, appearing in different forms across decades and genres? This episode explores the fascinating journey of “It Ain’t Easy“, a song that found a home in the repertoire of David Bowie, Three Dog Night, Long John Baldry, Mitch Ryder, Shelby Lynne and more. We trace the song back to its source: Ron Davies, a prolific but often-overlooked songwriter who came out of the Pacific Northwest garage rock scene. Despite never reaching the top of the Billboard charts himself, Davies created a song with musical bones so strong that it transitioned seamlessly from the glam-rock harpsichord of Bowie’s sessions to the stripped-back folk of Chris Smither.
We take a look at the specific production touches of the most significant versions, including the “all-star” original recording featuring Leon Russell and Jim Keltner. We discuss the tragic “lost” sessions of Bettye LaVette at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, the Rolling Stones-style swagger of Claudia Lennear’s version (featuring Ry Cooder), and even modern interpretations by The Raconteurs and Alexis P. Suter. Whether filtered through blues, country, glam, or soul, “It Ain’t Easy” remains a masterclass in songwriting consistency. Join us as we explore the lifespan of a track that proved a great song doesn’t need to be a commercial smash to become a timeless classic.
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Cloudflare recently introduced Kitesurf, a lightweight browser built for automated workloads. Kitesurf runs browser components in isolated WebAssembly/Rust environments on Cloudflare Workers and supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol, allowing tools such as Playwright and Puppeteer to drive it with lower resource overhead than a full Chromium browser.

"Can the microcollege movement gain ground?"

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"This past January, I traveled to a small town in Wisconsin’s Driftless region, the southwest corner of the state the glaciers missed, to join a summit of representatives from the far-flung universe of “microcolleges.” The host institution, Thoreau College, was one of several that had spent the last decade quietly forging radical alternatives to traditional higher education in out-of-the-way places like Viroqua, Wisconsin. Our conference venue was, appropriately, a community theater called Arkadia. I was in the company of students, teachers, founders and researchers, hailing from as far away as the temperate rainforests of southeast Alaska, the stark desert of the Great Basin and the hill country of southern Appalachia. We wore every shade of brown, took the day’s dishes in shifts and sang songs in rounds. In an adjacent room, the town of Viroqua was holding their fourth annual “Bardathon,” a week-long 24/7 reading of the entire corpus of Shakespeare, and a parade of bearded men filed in and out to sit for their shifts while we conducted our sessions. Occasionally, some of us would shuffle in from the blowing snow to read for a few acts. I read most of Twelfth Night one evening and was thanked gratuitously for my service.

In the small, self-referential world of the microcolleges, everything that happens is a microcosm. A few years out from undergrad, I was on my way to a “Rethinking Democracy and Education” conference hosted by a microcollege in Gustavus, Alaska, when low-lying fog prevented our flight from landing and sent us back to Juneau. Undeterred, the organizers put us on charter fishing boats, where I found myself in a lurching aluminum cabin for three hours with the former chair of my undergraduate program at Yale. I was nauseated by the collapsing distance between two worlds: one, the immediate and material world of rural, isolated communities like Viroqua and Gustavus, and the other, the heady but no less vital world of liberal education and its stalwart defenders at places like Yale.

The basic premise of the microcollege is the idea that these two worlds might be reconciled, and its most famous proof of concept is Deep Springs College. Arguably the most enduring educational experiment in American history, the school was established in 1917 and still exists today. It was founded by L. L. Nunn (1853-1925), who made a name for himself out West by bringing hydroelectric power to the mining industry, a process he pioneered when he electrified the town of Telluride, Colorado. While developing industrial-education programs for his hydroelectric engineers, he corresponded with Progressive educators like John Dewey and Alexander Meiklejohn and, motivated by the questions and problems of an increasingly industrial age, left the industry behind to focus full-time on education. His method evolved into the Telluride Association and eventually Deep Springs, a two-year liberal arts college, cattle ranch and alfalfa farm in the high desert of the eastern Sierras. Deep Springs is free for all students, in the belief that the opportunity will spur them to see themselves as producers, rather than consumers, of their education. The only long-standing class is Public Speaking; the rest are a balance of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences chosen by the student-run Curriculum Committee. Students work twenty hours per week minimum in a rotation of labor positions necessary to the basic operation of the college: milking cows, moving irrigation lines, cooking and cleaning. It serves 26 students at a time, thirteen per class. Until 2018, the student body was all male.

After a century without imitation, a diverse field of Nunnian institutions have emerged: the microcollege movement. It includes Thoreau College, a gap-year and summer program in Viroqua; Outer Coast, a two-year undergraduate program in Sitka, Alaska, where I worked for four years starting in 2019; Tidelines Institute, a gap-semester program and my host in Gustavus, formerly a “Deep Springs College for women” known as the Arete Project, back when female applicants were not admitted; Lamplight, a summer program for middle and high school students in northern Alabama; Gull Island Institute, which runs college partnership programs and a summer program for late-stage undergraduates in the Cape and Islands region of Massachusetts; and the Telluride Association, which oversees two Nunn-affiliated houses at Cornell and Michigan and a summer program for high school students. Arguably, it also includes many other institutions without a self-described affiliation with Nunn, like Bard College’s community-based “microcollege” program for working adults in New York. Jacob Hundt, a Deep Springer who grew up on a farm in Viroqua and started Thoreau College in 2015, has done the most work to document, publicize and name this movement as a movement. A perusal of the subjects covered on his Microcollege podcast shows the breadth of possible approaches: anthroposophy, Bildung, community singing, biodynamic agriculture.

Our summit at Arkadia, however, was a specifically Nunnian affair, the third such gathering since Deep Springs students first advocated for it in 2023. The first two had sought simply to take stock of the astonishing fact of a movement that had awoken, apparently overnight, from a hundred-year slumber. The third gathering, my first, mixed this earnest self-searching with a noticeably more organizational tone. The keynote speaker was L. Jackson Newell, a historian and former Deep Springs president, who wrote a biography of Nunn and has been among the strongest advocates for the propagation of what he calls “maverick colleges” like Deep Springs. Equal parts historical inquiry and strategic planning meeting, the microcolleges were searching their past for a viable future. We had come to Viroqua to ask what a Nunnian education entails, and to figure out why it had endured for so long at Deep Springs and the Telluride Houses but nowhere else. Why is it now that this model has begun to seem like such an appealing alternative?

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When I was a college freshman in 2015, Deep Springs represented the opposite of everything I found baffling and alienating about my experience at Yale. After growing up in a midsize town in western Colorado—just north of Telluride, coincidentally, the part of Colorado that sent Lauren Boebert to Congress—I got an acceptance letter from Yale with a handwritten note from my admissions officer about how important my “rural perspective” would be on campus. Whether or not that might have been true, I left for New Haven with a chip on my shoulder and a determination to transcend what I perceived to be a world of rural dead ends: record drought, appropriated Native mascots, freak accidents, piles of sofas shot through with AR-15s. I graduated high school at the peak of the affirmative action era, when faith in meritocracy and social mobility had yet to fade and “plus-factor” identity-based admissions could help students like me make a case for themselves with the right mixture of stats, clubs and a compelling story. I was also on the cutting edge of the Hillbilly Elegy era, when the aesthetics of rural poverty and the political potency of rural backlash were only just beginning to burst through. I wrote my essay about the politics of sportfishing. Narratively, it all fit.

At Yale, that narrative began to fall apart. In the canonical humanities sequence that I enrolled in, I had no reference point for anything we read. After spending most of my summer trudging through Herodotus and Homer, seminars flew by in a haze of SAT vocab and debate-champion-style spreading. The labor that I did on campus bore little relation to the world or to other people. My scholarship required a “student income contribution,” a lesson in the dignity of work that my more affluent peers somehow never needed to learn, imparted through a series of absurd and unnecessary part-time jobs: delivering printed forms that could have been emailed, doing dining-hall inventory, answering phones. Once, I got trapped in a storage closet right before a scholarship dinner I was supposed to attend. I hadn’t applied to Deep Springs originally, but I spent much of my first year poring over the website, imagining another escape.

I never took the leap. Instead, I found enough footholds in that bleak first year to start to build a small world for myself on campus. I made friends; I got to know my classmates, coworkers, mentors. But we didn’t have a shared project, or even much of a shared sense of reality. I, like everyone else, had my small vehicle of interests, career goals and stories about myself. My responsibilities were only to Yale and to myself, and my power was only to apply, and apply, and apply again: summer internships, secret societies, fellowships and so on.

My senior year, I did a research project on rural college aspirations, trying to figure out why liberal education wasn’t more available, or more desired, by rural students. But I began to wonder whether the better question was: Should liberal education as it currently exists be more available to rural students? Is the promise of social and economic mobility worth the trade-offs: the frayed connections with one’s homeplace, the loss of a world held in common with others?

By the time I graduated, I came to the now-familiar conclusion that my university, like many others, had abandoned its commitment to helping students make shared meaning of the world. Instead, the balkanization of the disciplines, the penetration of investment banking and consulting into career offices, the failure to train or reward professors for their teaching and, most importantly, students’ own consumer-driven assumptions about college had hollowed out the promise of liberal education. That is a problem not just for … [more]

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The Magic Formula is a value investing strategy created by Joel Greenblatt, introduced in his 2005 book The Little Book That Beats the Market. It aims to buy "good companies on average at cheap prices on average" by ranking stocks using two fundamental metrics: Return on Capital (quality) and Earnings Yield (value).

Return on Capital: Calculated as Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) divided by the sum of net fixed assets and working capital. This shows how efficiently a company makes profit from its capital.

Earnings Yield: Calculated as EBIT divided by Enterprise Value. This reveals how much operational earnings you get relative to the total price you pay for the company.

Step-by-Step Rules
- Start with a minimum market capitalization (typically $50 million or more).
- Remove financial firms, utility companies, and foreign stocks (ADRs) because their balance sheets make these metrics incomparable.
- Rank all remaining eligible stocks from best to worst based on Earnings Yield and Return on Capital, then combine the two rankings.
- Buy 20 to 30 top-ranked stocks, accumulating positions gradually over a 12-month period.
- Rebalance the portfolio once a year, selling losers slightly before the 1-year mark for tax benefits and holding winners past 1 year for long-term capital gains.

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The Weeping Angels, Eggsy reads on the stolen Torchwood intel. Aliens that pose as statues, and kill their victims by sending them back in time and feeding off their years not lived in the present. The politest psychopaths in the universe, a note reads, scrawled in what looks like a doctor’s chicken scratch on the edge of the page by someone who clearly had a perverse sense of humour. A one way trip, the report concludes; you get transported by the angels, and it’s the slow road back to the present for you.

Eggsy lays his head back on the wall, takes stock of his situation. He’s lost 30 years - three years more than his entire lifespan up ’til now - in the blink of an eye, and now he’s stuck here, in 1988. Three years before he’s even born. Arthur, the prick, is sure to be heading up the Kingsmen, and Merlin, if he’s even there would be…20, maybe. Fuck, so fucking young.

Shite, even Harry’d only be…

Alive, Eggsy thinks, and finds himself sitting down hard from where his knees can’t hold him. This is 1988, and Harry’s 23, and alive.

Suddenly, being stuck in 1988 doesn’t seem so bad.

Or, the one where love means changing the future. Harry/Eggsy, Time Travel Fix-It.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has approved funding for a new interchange connecting the Turnpike to State Route 981 in Mount Pleasant Township. The planned interchange will be near Milepost 80.8, which is 15 minutes south of the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.

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New BayCHI volunteer Adhithya Rajasekaran ([LI](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhi1991/)) is using Directus to build the new BayCHI web site, using a PostgreSQL database as the back end.

> Directus is the collaborative backend that puts data back in the hands of the teams who should own it.

I haven't explored Directus yet, so I don't yet grasp its architecture.

If we use Directus as our CMS, how will BayCHI's public-facing web site be hosted?

Will it be a static Apache virtual host on BayCHI's DigitalOcean virtual machine? And Directus will update those static files when we add or edit pages through the Directus CMS?

Will DirectUS use a PostgreSQL db on BayCHI's virtual host at Digital Ocean?

(I haven't worked with a "headless CMS" before. But I'm looking forward to it!)

I've asked Adhithya to comment.

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